I'm sitting here at my desk in the very early hours of a Monday morning. The glow of one lamp chases away the darkness of the room and keeps the cold blackness of pre-dawn away as I write, and the silence of the house allows me to focus on what I want to say to you.

I've always been this way; a night creature, not exactly in tune with most of the people in this work-a-day world. I'm practically comatose in the morning, fairly dull in the afternoon,

The unseasonably warm weather has got me thinking about how much I enjoy living in the Maritimes. When I find myself wrapped in a warm blanket, staring out the window as the snow swirls outside my window, thinking of soft white sands on a Florida beach somewhere, I can actually (don't laugh!) be glad to be where I am. At least we have four seasons here, which I have always thought of as the Queens in a deck of cards. 

Winter is the Queen of Sp

I love this time of year! Here in the Maritimes, we have learned to develop a stiff upper lip when it comes to winter. We are all resigned to being far behind the rest of Canada when it comes to the advent of spring, still hauling on the warm (and heavy) winter coats and boots, and, likely as not, still shoveling out the driveway on Easter Sunday!

Looks like this year we are getting a reprieve...even though patches of snow still lay pouting&nb

Okay,  I admit it. As a newly-published author of paranormal romance, I should have been blogging like a mad woman, sending my siren song out to the masses so that everyone would understand that Circle of Grace, the first book in my Island Magic Trilogy, was the best thing to come out of the publishing world since the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Everyone should want to read my book! Shouldn't they?

Well, a year has co

After years of raising kids, I finally have time to pursue my dream of becoming a writer. I knew I wanted to write from the time I first held a pencil and discovered the glory of expressing myself through words...oh, the pictures they painted in my mind! Now that the kids have flown the nest, I have realized my dream.

My first book, Circle of Grace, is being published by The Wild Rose Press, first as a downloadable version on October 31, 2008, and t